Airship.



Masini.

Specification of .Letters Patent.

Application filed April 22, 1913.

ljatented [apn iid, Serial No. 762,894.

To all whom it ou ay concern Be it known that I, ALBERT A. CALLico'rrn,a citizen of the United States, residing at North Yakima, in the countyof Yakima and State oi lVashington, have invented a new and usefulAil-ship, of which the following' is a specification.

This invention relatesto air ships of the lighter than air type, one ofits objects being to provide a gas container having horizontally andvertically extending tubes in which are arranged means for propelling`the air ship forwardly and rearwardly as well as for controllingr theupward more ment ot' the structure.

A further object is to provide a gas container which is connecteddirectly to the car of the air ship and which is so shaped andproportioned as to act as a parachute t'or retarding the downwardmovement of the air ship.

With the foregoing and other objects in View which will appear as thedescription proceeds, the invention resides in the com bination andarrangement4 of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter4described and claimed, it being understood that `ehanges in the preciseembodiment oit the invention herein disclosed, can be made with- `in thescope of what is claimed, without departing,I :trom the spirit of theinvention.

In the accompanying drawings thc prelerrcd form of the invention hasbeen shown.

:tu said drawings Figure l is a perspective View of the air ship. 'Fig'.2 is a bottoni plan View thereof.

Referring to the figures by characters ot reference l designates a grascontainer having opposed upper and lower conical portions meeting attheir peripheries to iorm the margin ot' the container. Extendingaxially through this container is a normally vertical tube Q. this tubeeateiuling` downwardly below the container aud through the center of acircular ear 3. This ear is provided with suitably, arranged supporting'wheels l and extending' forwardly and rearwardly from the ycar arerudders 5 and G steered while in flight.

`llxlendiiner through thc side portions of the gas container and belowthe. margin i' thereof are tubes 8, these tubes beingl parallel andbeing located at equal distances from the center, the longitudinal axesot the tubes being parallel with e line running from respectivclywhereby the air ship can be thel center of the front of the air ship tothe center ot the back thereof.

Any suitable motor such as shown atl) may be mounted in the car7suitable mechanism, not shown, beingA provided whereby motion istransmitted from this motor to propeller-s 10 located iu the horiztmtaltubes 8 and to another propeller ll located in the vertical tube 2.

It will be apparent that the container l, which extends a considerabledistance bcyond the periphery of thc car 33, will hold su'l'licient toelevate the entire structure. The speed oi elevation can be controlledby rotating propeller .ll so as `to displace air upwardly within thetube 2 and thus tend to torce the air ship dowmvardly. 'llhe air ship ispropelled forwardly orrearwardly by rotating the propellers l0, thussetting up currents ot air within the horizontal `tubes S. It will benoted that the bottom of the container l rests on and is secured directly to the top oi the ear 3 and thus the tube 2 extends not onlytlnough the container but also through the center of the ear. This tube'thus constitutes a reinforcing` central post about which the air shinis eonstructcd. Should the within the container leali therefrom, andthus fail, to sustain the air ship, or should theair ship begin todescend from any other cause, the large container l will act as aparachute to retard the downward niovei'nent so that a landing can loeeffected 'without danger to the occupa-nts ot the caru lmportanceisattached to 'the tact that the container as well as the ear is circular.lhus the resistance offered to air currents lroinall directions is thesame and there is no danger ot the container buckling under the pressureof the currents. Fiutherinore it thus becomes possible to more. quicklyturn Ithe air ship and to more readily#- steer it while in flight thanpossible where the ordinary ciganshaped container is en'iploycdnl/llhilo the propeller ll is especialliy designed to force the airshipdownii'ardly a l ercinbet'ore set forth, it to be iuiderstood that byrotating the proijiellcr .in thc opposite direction, it will assist inelevating' the machine should there be a. scarcity ot gas in thecontainer..

The container l preferably held er tended by a circular traino l2nrounted therein and guys, such as indicated atl in, l, may he extendeddownwardly flo this frame to the cui' il, Thus it will lie seen that,slionlcl the cfmlainor collapse. tlxo up g per portion lliereol will avtas a parmtliute while the lowcx' poil'ion will buckle lnyj waiwlly.

Vfliat is eluinied iwg tubular post exiendiilg upwardly from lille l. Anair ship including a tubular post,

a ear eonnoeiml thereto, a gas container Secured about the, post andfastened at its bottoni upon the ear, horizontally extending parallellubeS within the Siilo poi-lions of the gus container and close lo llioear,

and propelleis uiounloll for rotation wLln in tlm tubes.

2. An all' Ship including a vincular car. a tubular.' postextendingupwarclly 'lioin lio senior thereof, n circular gasooi'ltainl-r of grenierclian'neiier 'lian the cai' und formed oiloppooitely disposed upper' and lower substantially conical portionsconnected logethor at their margins, said container boing secured aboutthe post and being fastened at its bottom upon olio ear, andv liori'-Zonta-Hy extending parallel tubes within the center thereof, a circulargas oonlainer A of greater diameter than. the ear and formell ofopposilely disposed upper and lower sul;4 slantially conical portionsconnected together at tlieii malgggins7 said conlainer be ing; securedabout lle post and being faltenefl nl. its bottom upon the oai',lioizontally extencllng parallel tuoes within lille side portions of thegas Container :nul close to llie cai', piopelleis mounted for ioatonwithin the lobes, and a propeller mounted for rotation within tho ost.

ln testimony that e aim tlio foregoing as my own, I have hereto oflixedmy signollure in llio presence of two witnessee.

ALBERT A. CLLICOT'IE. lVtnesses:

JAMES O. @ULLs HAREIET E. Tam.

